Van Nuys is one of the older communities in the San Fernando Valley, and its housing shows it. You will find pre-war cottages near the original town center, tract homes built after World War II, and a large stock of apartment buildings along Van Nuys Blvd, Sherman Way and Victory Blvd. Many of these properties still run on original clay or cast iron sewer laterals, and decades of settling and root growth take their toll.
Because Van Nuys is part of the City of Los Angeles, water comes from LADWP and the public sewer main is maintained by the city. The lateral between your building and that main, however, is generally the property owner's responsibility. That is the line we inspect most often here, and it is usually where backups, slow drains and sewer odors begin. A camera inspection tells you exactly where the trouble sits before anyone digs.
Commercial and multi-unit owners make up a big share of our Van Nuys calls. Restaurants, auto shops and small industrial users along the boulevards and near Van Nuys Airport deal with grease, sediment and heavy daily flow. Landlords with older apartment buildings face shared drain stacks and aging water heaters. Being based here means we already know the streets, the building types and the problems that tend to show up.
